| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900. |
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| 283. The Pines and the Sea |
| | | By Christopher Pearse Cranch |
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| BEYOND the low marsh-meadows and the beach, | |
| Seen through the hoary trunks of windy pines, | |
| The long blue level of the ocean shines. | |
| The distant surf, with hoarse, complaining speech, | |
| Out from its sandy barrier seems to reach; | 5 |
| And while the sun behind the woods declines, | |
| The moaning sea with sighing boughs combines, | |
| And waves and pines make answer, each to each. | |
| O melancholy soul, whom far and near, | |
| In life, faith, hope, the same sad undertone | 10 |
| Pursues from thought to thought! thou needs must hear | |
| An old refrain, too much, too long thine own: | |
| ’T is thy mortality infects thine ear; | |
| The mournful strain was in thyself alone. | |
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